Cigar-holder



(No Model.)

A. L. WEBB.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT L. \VEBB, OF CLINTON, IOIVA.

CIGAR-HOLDER.

.SYECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,115, dated January 1, 1884. Application filed June 29, 1888. (No model.)

To 6015 whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, ALBERT L. WVEBB, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Clinton, in the county of Clinton and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar Holders, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a cigar-holder having concave jaws hinged together and adapted to readily receive and securely hold a cigar of any size, and provided with a curved tube constructed and arranged to receive and con duct to the mouth-piece the smoke in a cool condition and free from nicotine, avoiding the necessity of clipping off the end of the cigar and preventing it from becoming saturated with saliva, as hereinafter fully set forth.

In the drawings, Figure l isa side elevation of the holder. Fig. 2is alongitudinal section. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on dotted line :0 w of Fig. 1, showing the position of the pointed end of the curved tube.

A A are the concave jaws, hinged or pivoted together at a, and provided with the spring b, constructed and arrangedin the jaws to hold them in a closed position.

B is a curved tube attached to the jaw A, and having its end 2) extended into the mouth piece C. The other end, 0, of the tube is pointed, to adapt it to be readily inserted through acigar, and the portion nearthepointed end is provided with an opening, d, and this portion of the tube is extended transversely through the jaws, in position for the smoke from the cigar to enter'the opening and to be conveyed through the tube to the m'outlr piece. The holder is provided with a conicshaped ferrule or -cap, f, constructed to=-fit closely at its inner 'end over the tube, and to receive 'and fit closely at its outer end over the inner end of the mouth-piece. The jaws being opened by pressure upon the projecting end h of the jaw A, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, a cigar, E, is inserted between jaw A and the pointed end 0 of the tube, and as the jaws are closed, the pointed end of the tube pierces and passes through the cigar, placing at or near its center, on cross-section, the opening (2, through which the smoke from the lighted cigar enters, and is conveyed by the tube'in a cool condition and free from nicotine, to the mouth-piece of the holder, avoiding the necessity of clipping off the end of the cigar, and preventing it from becoming satu= rated with saliva.

In smoking, as the fire approaches the mouth of the jaws, the cigar may be moved outward in position to be entirely consumed.

It is evident that by means of the hinged jaws the holder is adapted to readily receir e and securely hold cigars of all the various sizes which are usually made.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A cigar-holder consisting of the hinged j 'aws A A, spring I), mouth-piece C, and the tube B, provided with the opening dnear its pointed end, which is extended transversely through the jaws, the other end of the tube being connected with the mouth-piece, substantially as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT L. WEBB. 

